Racconti

by Edgar Allan Poe

Overview

"Il 'cuore messo a nudo' in queste storie è anche il nostro, di quanti hanno condiviso, magari solo per un attimo, le stesse tentazioni. Non siamo diventati assassini per antipatia, non abbiamo camminato una notte intera incuriositi da un viso sconosciuto: ma se idee simili non ci avessero attraversato la mente, non saremmo tanto affascinati da questi racconti. Poe sembra conoscere perfettamente tale meccanismo di identificazione. Imperfetta e tortuosa, oppure eccitata e trionfante, la mente ridisegna il mondo. E' capace di trasformare un occhio velato in un incubo, o giornate tutte uguali in una meravigliosa avventura" Mariarosa Mancuso

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788858818770
Publisher:	Feltrinelli Editore
Publication date:	06/04/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.